cancer pain oncologic pain
Conditions
Interventions
The system consists of 1) a web-application or the pharmacist to enter and
change medication prescriptions
2) a tablet-pc-application for the patient in
order to monitor pain, symptoms and medication use
3) a web-application for
the nurse to monitor and analyse patient data
and 4) a web-application for the
treating physician to provide insight into the monitored data of their own
patients and to interact and exchange information with the nurse. This system
is embedded
Sponsors
Medisch Universitair Ziekenhuis Maastricht
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - Diagnosis of cancer - Patients who are under (palliative) anti-tumour treatment in a day clinic or outpatient clinic, or patients who have no treatment options available anymore - Cancer (treatment related) pain > 2 weeks when patients are not currently treated with opioids or
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Expected life expectancy
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The primary outcomes of the pilot study is to provide insight into the technical functioning, usability, acceptability, comprehensiveness, and feasibility of the telemonitoring intervention and care organisation, for both patients as well as participating health professionals. Technical functioning will be measured by recoding the number of errors, technical failures, defects and their causes in a logbook. Information regarding the usability, acceptability, comprehensiveness, and feasibility of the system will be collected during semi-structured interviews with the research in in logbooks that the nurses will keep in the web based application. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Not applicable. | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed